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Old April 26th 06, 03:36 AM posted to rec.aviation.ifr
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Default Accuracy of GPS in Garmin 430/530

you do it, you built it and get rich.
"Will" wrote in message
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| As the lawyers like to say in court "evidence not in the
record." There
| is no proof at all for the claim that some straightforward
math calculations
| in any GPS software is going to to double the cost of the
GPS. What I was
| describing doesn't require any new hardware, and it's just
a matter of
| calculating some accuracy numbers and representing them in
the standard UI.
|
| If it prevents one death that results in a multi-million
dollar lawsuit, it
| would payback the one man-month of work it might take to
do those
| calculations in software 100 fold or more.
|
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| Will
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|
| "Jim Macklin" wrote
in message
| news:4bx3g.8797$ZW3.1447@dukeread04...
| And it could double the cost of the system for no useful
| purpose.
|
| I'm sure that if anybody wanted a custom made GPS unit,
| Garmin or some other company would be happy to take your
| million dollars and build you one or even two of them.
|
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| James H. Macklin
| ATP,CFI,A&P
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